Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanne Harris

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.

I was really proud of how the guys came back. We were beaten about as badly as you can be last Wednesday.

Shawn Springs

I was talking to the Seahawks around that time, telling them I wanted to get traded. We were bad on defense -- couldn't stop the run, couldn't pressure the passer -- and it was just killing me.

Michael Trucco

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to my belt, a gun with a holster, and the suit and the tie with the jacket off, and it was just deja vu. I remember that image so clearly from growing up. My dad would come home for lunch, take off his jacket, have the gun and the badge.

Jim Edmonds

I was swinging the bat well in Chicago, had some good swings in Philadelphia but just not here. Putting the ball in play would be helpful. I just do something wrong and (the shoulder) gets a little sore. I take a bad swing, it gets a little worse.

I was surprised with the scores with the weather and the deep, wet rough. The guys really stepped up under bad conditions.

Shannon Brown

I was self-conscious about it because I would get stares. I could not wear certain hairstyles. If I had a bad hair day, I could not wear it up because it would be out there for the world to see.

I was scared and didn't really know much about cancer and how bad it really was.

Brandon Rush

I was surprised. He didn't really say anything to them at halftime. All he said was they weren't getting on the floor enough. I don't think they're down about it. They just feel bad they didn't come with all they got tonight. I don't think they're down. They'll just come to practice tomorrow, work real hard, and get back on coach's good side.

I was surprised at getting four in the first. It worked out really great for us and really bad for them.

Troy Polamalu

I was supposed to blitz, but I slowed down a little bit. I think, if I would have kept on coming, I would have forced a bad throw.

Robin Hayes

Mr. Speaker, there was an initiative to put full control of the Internet into the hands of the United Nations. That is a bad idea.

Ben Hecht

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.

Jim Boeheim

McNamara struggled tonight, it doesn't happen very often. He couldn't get anything going and we're not used to him having a bad game.

MCI WorldCom is made up of so many large companies in their own right that they all have a bad habit of blaming a different unit. When I have a problem and call, for example, the MFS unit, they tell me its UUNet's fault. When I call UUNet, they send me back to MFS. I'm not surprised that they were so disingenuous with this problem.

Kelly Reilly

Maureen isn't based on a real person. She's a completely fictional creation, though some of the girls probably went through the same sort of things. Maureen just sort of absorbs all the bad stuff. She's the sort of person that everything happens to, poor thing.

Matt's a fantastic keeper. He's had a great year ... I don't have a bad thing to say about him. He did a good job. They had three good shots on him and made them count.

May the saints protect you, And sorrow neglect you, And bad luck to the one, That doesn't respect you

Maybe with the market rebounding, some companies are getting ready to test the waters again. But the IPO market is still bad and there's no room for error,

Maybe we had a lot of distractions. We looked out of sync in the bad conditions. All the things went bad, but we still won the game.

Mentally, our girls weren't there. We were a step behind defensively and offensively we were in a panic. We made bad panic passes. But give Spring-Ford credit. They caused those things. We didn't react as individuals.

Graham Greene

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad

Nate Burleson

Me and Daunte have to be on the same page, ... I have to bring the route in a little bit faster and get in front of the DB. We started out on a bad note.

My initial thought was that it is not that bad, but bad (enough) that he misses a couple of weeks.

Jordi Molla

My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I'm happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.

My knee wasn't that bad the second half of last season. It was a factor, but it wasn't as much of a factor as you would think. It was more of a mind thing.

My lower half was not there. At times it was like I was trying to pitch stiff-legged. Physically, I fell into some bad habits, and that hurt my arm. It got to a point where I wasn't even a big-league pitcher.

My life got so bad ? I had friends dying from it (heroin). I didn't care if I lived or died, I was so sick.

Julie Kagawa

My favourite character would have to be 'Ash,' because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs a very close second.

My follow-through wasn't the same. When you have a bad wrist like that you try to make adjustments shooting the ball and obviously there's going to be some flaws to the shot.

My first three years I had injuries and bad luck a little bit. Now is a good chance to show what kind of player I am.

Kim Smith

My first Sweet 16 was on the line, and I just didn't want the season to end. I think everyone was really calm and confident. We had been in bad spots before and knew we could still win.